The Serbian national basketball team will play the first phase of the World Cup qualifiers in Group C.
Serbia’s rivals will be the national teams of Turkey, Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as a qualifier from the pre-qualifiers.
Then, the top three from the group cross with the top three from Group D, which includes Lithuania, Italy, Great Britain, and Iceland.
Three of the six teams will qualify for the World Cup, which will be held in Qatar in 2027.
In the European qualifiers, 32 national teams will compete in six FIBA windows, and in the end, 12 teams will secure a place at the world championship.
In the first part of the qualifiers, there will be eight groups with four teams each, and each team will play against every other team at home and away.
Three teams from each group will advance to the second phase, in which there will be four new groups, and points will be carried over, making all matches extremely important. Each national team will meet opponents they did not play against in the first phase.
The top three teams from these four groups will play at the World Cup in Qatar.
Serbia will play in Group C, and this group will cross in the second phase with Group D, which includes Lithuania, Italy, Great Britain, and Iceland.
Group A: Qualifier D2, Georgia, Qualifier A, Spain.
Group B: Greece, Montenegro, Portugal, Qualifier B.
Group C: SERBIA, Turkey, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Qualifier A2 (Second from the pre-qualifying group Slovakia, Switzerland, and Ukraine).
Group D: Great Britain, Italy, Iceland, Lithuania.
Group E: Qualifier D, Germany, Israel, Cyprus.
Group F: Latvia, Poland, Qualifier C2, Qualifier C1.
Group G: France, Belgium, Finland.
Group H: Slovenia, Czech Republic, Sweden, Estonia.
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